"When completed, a trip from Husky Stadium to downtown will take about 6 minutes..."

For those of us who live in colorful South Seattle, this future is already here—the trip from my place (Columbia City) to downtown is 10 minutes. As for Ballard, it's stuck with the joke of "Rapid Ride." (If you regularly catch the 17, you will not find this joke funny.) There is no real public transportation without dedicated lines.